ALICO Building, Historic office building in downtown Waco, Texas
ALICO Building is an office tower in downtown Waco, Texas. It stands 282 feet (86 meters) tall with 22 floors clad in brick and terra cotta, while the ground floors are finished with polished granite and Bedford limestone.
Construction was completed in 1911 at a cost equivalent to several million dollars today, and the tower was the tallest west of the Mississippi River until 1929. Its completion marked the rise of Waco as a regional business center in Texas.
The name comes from American Life Insurance Company, whose headquarters have operated here for more than a century. The entrance hall shows decorated ceilings and arches from the years before World War I that recall European banking halls.
The tower remains an active office complex with shops on the ground floor. Visitors can view the facade and public areas on the ground level without prior arrangement.
During excavation, workers struck an underground lake 40 feet (12 meters) down before reaching bedrock. This discovery delayed foundation work for several weeks.
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